The former head of state and the managing director of his former company, KTAG, were accused of unlawfully accounting for costs unrelated to the business during the VAT refund. The case is still It is related to the financing of Andrej Kiska’s 2014 presidential election campaign.
In the judgment, which is not yet final, the court ordered the former head of state to pay a fine of 15,000 euros in addition to the suspended prison sentence, as well as He was banned from company management for 6 years. In his response to the Slovak news agency on Wednesday, Kiska said:
he was surprised by the verdict, disagrees with it and plans to appeal.
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